Method and system for gigabit wireless transmission

Abstract

A method and system for wireless communication with a mobile device. A first wireless communication network, such as a WiMax or cellular-based network, has a first maximum wireless speed. A second wireless communication network, such as a near-photonic speed gigabit link (“GiLink”) network, has a second maximum wireless speed. The second wireless maximum speed is less than the first maximum wireless speed. The second wireless communication network provides control plane services for wireless communication between the mobile device and the first wireless communication network.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]n / aSTATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]n / aFIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]The present invention relates to a system and method for gigabit wireless communication and in particular to a method and system for determining the link connectivity for a gigabit wireless communication enabled mobile device, thereby facilitating high speed gigabit wireless communication with the mobile device.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]As deployment and affordability increase for computing devices and computer networks, the services available on these networks also increase. The result is a demand for increased bandwidth and throughput. For example, while the transmission of simple text and graphics was the norm but a few years ago, streaming multimedia and huge multi-megabyte file transfers are the new norm. This necessitates ever-increasing network communication speeds. While hard-wired networks can support such demands through ...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]The present invention advantageously provides a cost-effective method and system for wireless broadband, e.g., GiLink, local area network communications. To do so, an exemplary embodiment overlays a lower speed and long-range wireless, e.g., Wide Area Network (“WAN”), cellular or WiFi network on a GiLink-based wireless LAN. Such long-range wireless networks provided non line-of-sight (“NLOS”) wireless network connectivity. The mobile device supports both the lower speed, long-range network for NLOS communication, and the higher speed and short-range GiLink modes of communication such the long-range network can be used to determine or assist the GiLink connectivity of the mobile device to the access point or the peer mobile device within the LAN. It is contemplated that other methods for determining the connectivity for the mobile device within the GiLink LAN can be used.

[0009]In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a method for wireless communication with a mobile device using a first wireless communication network having a first maximum wireless speed and having a plurality of access points for communication with the mobile device, and a second wireless communication network having a second maximum wireless speed in which the second wireless maximum speed is less than the first maximum wireless speed. The second wireless communication network is used to assist determination of connectivity for the mobile device on the first wireless communication network. At least one of the plurality of access points on the f...

Problems solved by technology

(“GB”) Ethernet, fiber-optic and other high speed OSI Layer 1 communications, wireless networks currently can not readily and inexpensively support these communications.

Gigabit wireless transmission demands an excessive amount of scarce spectrum resource.

Typically, the licensed spectrum results in excessive network cost.

This lack of ultra-high wireless communication deployment is clearly evident in wireless local area networking (“LAN”).

Such is the case due to the limited and expensive government licensing fees associated with the acquisition of portions of the radio frequency (“RF”) spectrum and the short communication range for unlicensed portions of the RF spectrum at higher carrier frequencies.

For example, while the 60 GHz and 1 THz portions of the RF spectrum are not licensed, these frequencies are only suitable to support GiLink data rates for very short distances, e.g., meters or ten of meters

This introduces additional disadvantages to support the mobility service.

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